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25 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 51 (2017)
Situating the Corporation within the Vulnerability Paradigm: What Impact Does Corporate Personhood Have on Vulnerability, Dependency, and Resilience

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      SITUATING THE CORPORATION
      WITHIN THE VULNERABILITY
    PARADIGM: WHAT IMPACT DOES
 CORPORATE PERSONHOOD HAVE ON
 VULNERABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND
                    RESILIENCE


                    HEATHER M. KOLINSKY*


I. Introduction    ............................................52
II. Vulnerability, Dependency and Resilience ....................55
III. Corporation as Legal Subject. ..................    ..........60
     A.  Corporate Entities and Their Related Rights........................60
     B. Duties and Protections for Corporate Actors in the
         Corporation.............................66
IV. Corporate Personhood and Religion: The Impact of Hobby Lobby .....66
     A.  Religious Liberties and the Constitution ....... .........67
     B.  RFRA.......................................69
     C.  Hobby Lobby                     ..................................71
     D.  The Impact of a New Judicial View of Corporate
         Personhood       .............................. .....78
         1. Critiques of Hobby Lobby....      ....................78
         2. Limits of Hobby Lobby (or Lack Thereof)....... .....80
V. The Role of the Responsive State in Mediating Corporate
     Personhood                        .......................................82
VI. Conclusion.........................................85




* Heather M. Kolinsky, B.A., Stetson University, J.D., Rutgers-Camden, LL.M. Emory
University School of Law. This Article was written as part of my thesis for my LL.M.
in Vulnerability and Human Condition at Emory Law School. My thanks to Professors
Martha Fineman and Stu Marvel, and Yvana Mols and Kirsten Widner for their
assistance and guidance in this endeavor, and to my colleagues at Emory that helped
shape and develop my ideas on this topic.


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